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Per completezza, ho deciso di fare un elenco esaustivo dei riferimenti testuali all'Arbor Gold e alle menzogne, così come fatto per gli zaffiri e i segreti (Fonte: A Search of Ice and Fire).

 

A Clash of Kings

 

Cita

Cersei beckoned to her page for another cup of wine, a golden vintage from the Arbor, fruity and rich. The queen was drinking heavily, but the wine only seemed to make her more beautiful; her cheeks were flushed, and her eyes had a bright, feverish heat to them as she looked down over the hall. Eyes of wildfire, Sansa thought.

 

Durante la Battaglia delle Acque Nere, Cersei accoglie le nobildonne nel Fortino di Maegor con il pretesto di proteggerle, ma in realtà ha intenzione di farle uccidere da Ilyn Payne nel caso in cui Stannis conquistasse la capitale. A un certo punto, però, Cersei smette di bere l'oro di Arbor e prende una caraffa di vino di prugne che fa bere a Sansa (The queen took a flagon of sweet plum wine from a passing serving girl and filled Sansa’s cup). A quel punto Cersei spiega la verità alla Stark: una volta uscito di scena il vino dei mendaci, si compie il disvelamento dell'inganno.

 

A Storm of Swords

 

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Lesser tracts were granted to Lord Rowan, and set aside for Lord Tarly, Lady Oakheart, Lord Hightower, and other worthies not present. Lord Redwyne asked only for thirty years' remission of the taxes that Littlefinger and his wine factors had levied on certain of the Arbor's finest vintages. When that was granted, he pronounced himself well satisfied and suggested that they send for a cask of Arbor gold, to toast good King Joffrey and his wise and benevolent Hand. At that Cersei lost patience. "It's swords Joff needs, not toasts," she snapped. "His realm is still plagued with would-be usurpers and self-styled kings."

 

Lord Redwyne ringrazia il "buon Re Joffrey" e il "saggio e benevolo Tywin" per avergli concesso una remissione delle tasse, e offre un barile di Arbor Gold per fare un brindisi. Il vino dorato ci ricorda, ove mai ne avessimo bisogno, che Joffrey e Tywin non sono per nulla "buoni, saggi e benevoli" e che Redwyne li sta adulando solo per amore del denaro.

 

Cita

For their wedding night, they had been granted the use of an airy bedchamber high in the Tower of the Hand. Tyrion kicked the door shut behind them. "There is a flagon of good Arbor gold on the sideboard, Sansa. Will you be so kind as to pour me a cup?"

 

L'inganno sta nel fatto che il matrimonio fra Tyrion e Sansa, nonostante in cuor suo il Folletto speri che la ragazza possa provare dei sentimenti per lui, è una farsa e non verrà mai consumato.

 

A Feast for Crows

 

Cita

". . . three more days." Lazy Leo shrugged. "Perestan says the world is forty thousand years old. Mollos says five hundred thousand. What are three days, I ask you?" Though there were a dozen empty tables on the terrace, Leo sat himself at theirs. "Buy me a cup of Arbor gold, Hopfrog, and perhaps I won't inform my father of your toast. The tiles turned against me at the Checkered Hazard, and I wasted my last stag on supper. Suckling pig in plum sauce, stuffed with chestnuts and white truffles. A man must eat. What did you lads have?"

 

[...]

 

"Far be it from me to keep you from the piss tasting," said Leo. "Myself, I prefer the taste of Arbor gold."

 

Non è chiaro quale sia l'inganno: un'ipotesi è che il vino sia un riferimento al fatto che Leo ha palesemente capito che Alleras non è chi dice di essere, oppure è possibile che il giovane Tyrell abbia anch'egli qualcosa da nascondere che scopriremo in TWOW.

 

Cita

Jaime wondered where Varys was hiding. Wisely, the master of whisperers had not returned to his own chambers, nor had a search of the Red Keep turned him up. It might be that the eunuch had taken ship with Tyrion, rather than remain to answer awkward questions. If so, the two of them were well out to sea by now, sharing a flagon of Arbor gold in the cabin of a galley.

 

Il vino simboleggia l'inganno di Varys che ha consentito a Tyrion la fuga. Da notare che in realtà il viaggio per nave del Folletto è tutt'altro che agevole, a differenza di come lo immagina Jaime, quindi l'Arbor Gold ha anche una valenza ironica.

 

Cita

"And this lie may spare us. Else you and I must leave the Eyrie by the same door Lysa used." Petyr picked up his quill again. "We shall serve him lies and Arbor gold, and he'll drink them down and ask for more, I promise you."

 

[...]

 

A low fire burned in the solar, where a flagon of wine awaited them. Arbor gold. Sansa filled Lord Nestor's cup whilst Petyr prodded at the logs with an iron poker.

 

[...]

 

Later, much later, after the flagon of Arbor gold was dry, Lord Nestor took his leave to rejoin his company of knights. Sansa was asleep on her feet by then, wanting only to crawl off to her bed, but Petyr caught her by the wrist. "You see the wonders that can be worked with lies and Arbor gold?"

 

[...]

 

"I . . ." I do not know, my lord, she almost said, but that was not what he wanted to hear. Lies and Arbor gold, she thought. "I am Alayne, Father. Who else would I be?"

 

Questa è la serie di citazioni più famosa, nonché quella alla base dell'intera teoria (abbiamo infatti un collegamento diretto fra il vino dorato e le menzogne, lies). Littlefinger, con l'aiuto di Sansa (che finge di chiamarsi Alayne Stone), tesse la sua trama di inganni per rafforzare il proprio controllo sulla Valle di Arryn: in particolare, in questo capitolo, a essere coinvolto negli intrighi è Nestor Royce.

 

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"We do, Your Grace." Orton Merryweather was not a comely man, with his big lumpish nose and shock of unruly reddish-orange hair, but he was never less than courteous. "We have Dornish red and Arbor gold, and a fine sweet hippocras from Highgarden."

 

"The gold, I think. I find Dornish wines as sour as the Dornish." As Merryweather filled her cup, Cersei said, "I suppose we had as well begin with them."

 

[...]

 

"Do not discount this man Luceon," Qyburn said. "Last night he feted thirty of the Most Devout on suckling pig and Arbor gold, and by day he hands out hardbread to the poor to prove his piety."

 

[...]

 

Outside a cold wind was rising. They stayed up late into the morning, drinking Arbor gold and telling one another tales. Taena got quite drunk and Cersei pried the name of her secret lover from her. He was a Myrish sea captain, half a pirate, with black hair to the shoulders and a scar that ran across his face from chin to ear. "A hundred times I told him no, and he said yes," the other woman told her, "until finally I was saying yes as well. He was not the sort of man to be denied."

 

In questo POV di Cersei ci sono svariati collegamenti dell'Arbor Gold agli inganni di corte:

 

1) In relazione all'invio della testa di Gregor Clegane a Dorne. Forse la Montagna non è veramente morta, oppure lo è ma la testa non è sua, o ancora la testa è veramente sua ma la Montagna è tenuta in vita come zombi.

 

2) In relazione al septon Luceon Frey, il quale tenta di comprarsi l'elezione ad Alto Septon offrendo il vino e facendo elemosine. L'inganno sta nel fatto che Luceon non dimostra affatto di essere un uomo pio.

 

3) In relazione a Fake Arya.

 

4) In relazione alle confidenze amorose di Cersei e Taena: la regina per poco non si lascia scappare il nome di Jaime, e si salva menzionando Robert.

 

Cita

More like the cripple did not have his watchtowers manned, and now he fears to have us know it. The little queen is making excuses for her brother. Cersei's mouth was dry. I need a cup of Arbor gold. If the ironmen decided to take the Arbor next, the whole realm might soon be going thirsty. "Stannis may have had a hand in this. Balon Greyjoy offered my lord father an alliance. Perhaps his son has offered one to Stannis."

 

In quest'altro POV viene rimarcato il concetto che il vino dorato di Arbor è il preferito di Cersei: esso simboleggia l'abitudine alla menzogna della regina, nonché la sua inclinazione a circondarsi di adulatori e spie. Cersei ama ingannare ed essere ingannata.

 

A Dance with Dragons

 

Cita

Tyrion left the fat women to their loaves and kettles and went in search of the cellar where Illyrio had decanted him the night before. It was not hard to find. There was enough wine there to keep him drunk for a hundred years; sweet reds from the Reach and sour reds from Dorne, pale Pentoshi ambers, the green nectar of Myr, three score casks of Arbor gold, even wines from the fabled east, from Qarth and Yi Ti and Asshai by the Shadow. In the end, Tyrion chose a cask of strongwine marked as the private stock of Lord Runceford Redwyne, the grandfather of the present Lord of the Arbor. The taste of it was languorous and heady on the tongue, the color a purple so dark that it looked almost black in the dim-lit cellar. Tyrion filled a cup, and a flagon for good measure, and carried them up to the gardens to drink beneath those cherry trees he'd seen.

 

Viene sottolineato che Illyrio possiede tre barili di Arbor Gold: di lui non ci si può fidare, come dimostra il suo coinvolgimento nel complotto Blackfyre.

 

Cita

Davos tossed him back the core. A bad apple, but it was worth half a penny to learn that Manderly is raising men. He made his way around Old Fishfoot, past where a young girl was selling cups of fresh milk from her nanny goat. He was remembering more of the city now that he was here. Down past where Old Fishfoot's trident pointed was an alley where they sold fried cod, crisp and golden brown outside and flaky white within. Over there was a brothel, cleaner than most, where a sailor could enjoy a woman without fear of being robbed or killed. Off the other way, in one of those houses that clung to the walls of the Wolf's Den like barnacles to an old hull, there used to be a brewhouse where they made a black beer so thick and tasty that a cask of it could fetch as much as Arbor gold in Braavos and the Port of Ibben, provided the locals left the brewer any to sell.

 

Il riferimento al vino dorato di Arbor in questo POV di Davos è un'anticipazione della morte presunta del Cavaliere delle Cipolle e del complotto dei Manderly.

 

Cita

The lad flushed. "That was not me. I told you. That was some tanner's son from Pisswater Bend whose mother died birthing him. His father sold him to Lord Varys for a jug of Arbor gold. He had other sons but had never tasted Arbor gold. Varys gave the Pisswater boy to my lady mother and carried me away."

 

Varys racconta di aver sostituito il vero Aegon con un bambino a caso: la presenza dell'Arbor Gold, però, ci fa capire che è una menzogna.

 

Cita

"Have some wine, then." He filled a cup and slid it toward her. "Compliments of our captain. Closer to piss than Arbor gold, if truth be told, but even piss tastes better than the black tar rum the sailors drink. It might help you sleep."

 

In questo capitolo Tyrion cerca di fare amicizia con Penny, il quale gli dà la colpa della morte del fratello Oppo. Il fatto che Tyrion le offra un vino che descrive in termini opposti all'Arbor Gold è un segno della sincerità del Folletto: un elemento non da poco se consideriamo che in ADWD Tyrion ha un rapporto problematico con le figure femminili.

 

Cita

The Lord of White Harbor had furnished the food and drink, black stout and yellow beer and wines red and gold and purple, brought up from the warm south on fat-bottomed ships and aged in his deep cellars. The wedding guests gorged on cod cakes and winter squash, hills of neeps and great round wheels of cheese, on smoking slabs of mutton and beef ribs charred almost black, and lastly on three great wedding pies, as wide across as wagon wheels, their flaky crusts stuffed to bursting with carrots, onions, turnips, parsnips, mushrooms, and chunks of seasoned pork swimming in a savory brown gravy. Ramsay hacked off slices with his falchion and Wyman Manderly himself served, presenting the first steaming portions to Roose Bolton and his fat Frey wife, the next to Ser Hosteen and Ser Aenys, the sons of Walder Frey. "The best pie you have ever tasted, my lords," the fat lord declared. "Wash it down with Arbor gold and savor every bite. I know I shall."

 

Un riferimento di Wyman Manderly al terribile inganno delle Frey Pie.

 

Cita

"Take Draqaz with you. One flagon of Arbor gold, and one of that sweet red. None of our yellow piss, thank you. And the next time I find my flagon dry, I may have to take a switch to those pretty pink cheeks of yours." The boy went running off, and the king turned back to Selmy. "I dreamed you found Daenerys."

 

Anche Hizdahr zo Loraq apprezza il vino dorato di Arbor, segno dell'ambiguità del personaggio, alleato di Daenerys ma allo stesso tempo legato ai Figli dell'Arpia.

 

Extra (The Princess and the Queen)

 

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The next morning, Ser Hobert Hightower called upon him, to thrash out the details of their assault upon King’s Landing. He brought with him two casks of wine as a gift, one of Dornish red and one of Arbor gold. Though Ulf the Sot had never tasted a wine he did not like, he was known to be partial to the sweeter vintages. No doubt Ser Hobert hoped to sip the sour red whilst Lord Ulf quaffed down the Arbor gold. Yet something about Hightower’s manner—he was sweating and stammering and too hearty by half, the squire who served them testified later—pricked White’s suspicions. Wary, he commanded that the Dornish red be set aside for later, and insisted Ser Hobert share the Arbor gold with him.

 

Durante la danza dei Draghi Ulf il Bianco viene avvelenato da Hobert Hightower con l'Arbor Gold (anche Hobert, però, fa la stessa fine).

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Vogliamo una società socialista che corrisponda alle condizioni del nostro paese, che rispetti tutte le libertà sancite dalla Costituzione, che sia fondata su una pluralità di partiti, sul concorso di diverse forze sociali. Una società che rispetti tutte le libertà, meno una: quella di sfruttare il lavoro di altri esseri umani, perché questa libertà tutte le altre distrugge e rende vane

Enrico Berlinguer

 

What is honor compared to a woman's love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms… or the memory of a brother's smile? Wind and words. Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.

George R. R. Martin (A Game of Thrones)

 

The measure of a life is a measure of love and respect,

So hard to earn, so easily burned
In the fullness of time,
A garden to nurture and protect
It's a measure of a life
The treasure of a life is a measure of love and respect,
The way you live, the gifts that you give
In the fullness of time,
It's the only return that you expect

Neil Peart (The Garden)

 

Ernest Hemingway once wrote, ‘The world is a fine place, and worth fighting for.’ I agree with the second part.

Andrew Kevin Walker (Seven)

 

In this game that we’re playing, we can’t win. Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds, that’s all.

George Orwell (Nineteen Eighty-Four)


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I ragazzi del Mondo del Ghiaccio e del Fuoco hanno realizzato un video sull'argomento:

 

 

Riassumendo:

 

* Il vino dorato di Arbor rappresenta le menzogne

* Il vino rosso di Arbor rappresenta gli avvelenamenti

* I cinghiali rappresentano i cambiamenti politici

* Le arance rosse rappresentano il sangue versato e il fallimento

* I limoni rappresentano l'innocenza e la purezza


Vogliamo una società socialista che corrisponda alle condizioni del nostro paese, che rispetti tutte le libertà sancite dalla Costituzione, che sia fondata su una pluralità di partiti, sul concorso di diverse forze sociali. Una società che rispetti tutte le libertà, meno una: quella di sfruttare il lavoro di altri esseri umani, perché questa libertà tutte le altre distrugge e rende vane

Enrico Berlinguer

 

What is honor compared to a woman's love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms… or the memory of a brother's smile? Wind and words. Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.

George R. R. Martin (A Game of Thrones)

 

The measure of a life is a measure of love and respect,

So hard to earn, so easily burned
In the fullness of time,
A garden to nurture and protect
It's a measure of a life
The treasure of a life is a measure of love and respect,
The way you live, the gifts that you give
In the fullness of time,
It's the only return that you expect

Neil Peart (The Garden)

 

Ernest Hemingway once wrote, ‘The world is a fine place, and worth fighting for.’ I agree with the second part.

Andrew Kevin Walker (Seven)

 

In this game that we’re playing, we can’t win. Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds, that’s all.

George Orwell (Nineteen Eighty-Four)


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Questa è la conferma che i due ragazzi del podcast seguono il forum :blink:


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20 hours fa, Jacaerys Velaryon dice:

I ragazzi del Mondo del Ghiaccio e del Fuoco hanno realizzato un video sull'argomento:

 

 

Riassumendo:

 

* Il vino dorato di Arbor rappresenta le menzogne

* Il vino rosso di Arbor rappresenta gli avvelenamenti

* I cinghiali rappresentano i cambiamenti politici

* Le arance rosse rappresentano il sangue versato e il fallimento

* I limoni rappresentano l'innocenza e la purezza

visto che ormai i 2 non aprano i libri da anni, non possono fare altro che copiare le nostre discussioni sul forum...

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Il 28/10/2020 at 11:56, Jaehaerys96 dice:

visto che ormai i 2 non aprano i libri da anni, non possono fare altro che copiare le nostre discussioni sul forum...

Cosa intendi ??



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Il 6/11/2020 at 15:43, Daemon Targaryen dice:

Cosa intendi ??

 

Hanno detto che da alcuni anni non fanno riletture complete, ma solo parziali. Non ci vedo nulla di male, comunque.

 

Per tornare in topic, segnalo una chicca del Podcast del Ghiaccio e del Fuoco che riguarda la cena tra Jaime, Brienne e Roose Bolton a Harrenhal:

 

Roose chiede ai due ospiti se gradiscono del vino rosso o del bianco: Jaime beve il rosso, Brienne preferisce l'acqua e Roose opta per l'ippocrasso (vino rosso speziato, più blando del rosso normale). Secondo il Podcast il rosso rappresenta i Lannister, il bianco gli Stark:  la scelta di Jaime indica la sua appartenenza alla propria casata; la scelta di Brienne indica la sua purezza e la sua estraneità e ingenuità nei confronti delle trame politiche di cui discutono Roose e Jaime; la scelta di Roose indica la sua transizione dalla fazione Stark a quella Lannister.

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Vogliamo una società socialista che corrisponda alle condizioni del nostro paese, che rispetti tutte le libertà sancite dalla Costituzione, che sia fondata su una pluralità di partiti, sul concorso di diverse forze sociali. Una società che rispetti tutte le libertà, meno una: quella di sfruttare il lavoro di altri esseri umani, perché questa libertà tutte le altre distrugge e rende vane

Enrico Berlinguer

 

What is honor compared to a woman's love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms… or the memory of a brother's smile? Wind and words. Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.

George R. R. Martin (A Game of Thrones)

 

The measure of a life is a measure of love and respect,

So hard to earn, so easily burned
In the fullness of time,
A garden to nurture and protect
It's a measure of a life
The treasure of a life is a measure of love and respect,
The way you live, the gifts that you give
In the fullness of time,
It's the only return that you expect

Neil Peart (The Garden)

 

Ernest Hemingway once wrote, ‘The world is a fine place, and worth fighting for.’ I agree with the second part.

Andrew Kevin Walker (Seven)

 

In this game that we’re playing, we can’t win. Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds, that’s all.

George Orwell (Nineteen Eighty-Four)


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Chissà se si nascondono messaggi simili anche nelle descrizioni dell'abbigliamento dei personaggi, spesso dettagliate quasi quanto i pasti?


"Egg? Egg, stavo sognando di essere vecchio."

- tronodiferro su Tumblr - @SerPunk_thetall su Twitter
"Ho sognato di te e di un drago morto, sai. Una grande bestia, enorme, con ali così ampie che potevano coprire questo campo.
Ti era caduto addosso, ma tu eri vivo e il drago era morto."
"Braavos è bella, ma non ci vivrei."


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Il 27/11/2020 at 11:08, Gallow ha scritto:

Chissà se si nascondono messaggi simili anche nelle descrizioni dell'abbigliamento dei personaggi, spesso dettagliate quasi quanto i pasti?

 

Dopo quasi un anno ho risposto indirettamente a questa domanda in un altro thread: ne parlo qui nella sezione Il sentiero della ghianda e dell'edera, in relazione ad Arya e Sansa Stark.

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Vogliamo una società socialista che corrisponda alle condizioni del nostro paese, che rispetti tutte le libertà sancite dalla Costituzione, che sia fondata su una pluralità di partiti, sul concorso di diverse forze sociali. Una società che rispetti tutte le libertà, meno una: quella di sfruttare il lavoro di altri esseri umani, perché questa libertà tutte le altre distrugge e rende vane

Enrico Berlinguer

 

What is honor compared to a woman's love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms… or the memory of a brother's smile? Wind and words. Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.

George R. R. Martin (A Game of Thrones)

 

The measure of a life is a measure of love and respect,

So hard to earn, so easily burned
In the fullness of time,
A garden to nurture and protect
It's a measure of a life
The treasure of a life is a measure of love and respect,
The way you live, the gifts that you give
In the fullness of time,
It's the only return that you expect

Neil Peart (The Garden)

 

Ernest Hemingway once wrote, ‘The world is a fine place, and worth fighting for.’ I agree with the second part.

Andrew Kevin Walker (Seven)

 

In this game that we’re playing, we can’t win. Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds, that’s all.

George Orwell (Nineteen Eighty-Four)


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Ci sono altri due riferimenti all'Arbor Gold in F&B:

 

Twelve days of smooth sailing out of Westeros, the Sun Chaser and her two companions were as far south as the Summer Islands, according to their best calculations, and farther west than any ship had sailed before…or any ship that had returned to tell of it, at least. On the Lady Meredith and Autumn Moon, casks of Arbor gold were breached to toast the accomplishment; on Sun Chaser, the sailors drank a spiced honey wine from Lannisport. And if any man of them was disquieted that they had not seen a bird for the past four days, he held his tongue.
 
The gods hate man’s arrogance, the septons teach us, and The Seven-Pointed Star says that pride goes before a fall. It may well be that Alys Westhill and the Hightowers celebrated too loudly and too early, there in the ocean deeps, for soon after that the grand voyage began to go badly wrong. “We lost the wind first,” Ser Eustace told his grandfather’s court. “For almost a fortnight there was not so much as a breeze, and the ships moved only so far as we could tow them. It was discovered that a dozen casks of meat on Autumn Moon were crawling with maggots. A small enough thing by itself, but an ill omen. The wind finally returned one day near sunset, when the sky turned red as blood, but the look of it set men to muttering. I told them it boded well for us, but I lied. Before morning the stars were gone and the wind began to howl, and then the ocean rose.”
 
(The Long Reign—Jaehaerys and Alysanne: Policy, Progeny, and Pain)
 
I marinai della spedizione di Elissa Farman nel Mare del Tramonto festeggiano i primi, ottimi, dodici giorni di viaggio. Ma il mare è menzognero, infatti da quel momento iniziano i problemi...
 
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The matter came to a head in 73 AC. Prince Vaegon was ten years old and Princess Daella nine when one of the queen’s companions, new to the Red Keep, teasingly asked the two of them when they would be married. Vaegon reacted as if he had been slapped. “I would never marry her,” the boy said, in front of half the court. “She can barely read. She should find some lord in need of stupid children, for that’s the only sort he will ever have of her.”
 
Princess Daella, as might be expected, burst into tears and fled the hall, with her mother, the queen, rushing after her. It fell to her sister Alyssa, at thirteen three years Vaegon’s elder, to pour a flagon of wine over his head. Even that did not make the prince repent. “You are wasting Arbor gold,” was all he said before stalking from the hall to change his clothing.
 
(The Long Reign—Jaehaerys and Alysanne: Policy, Progeny, and Pain)
 
Alyssa Targaryen vendica sua sorella Daella per le parole scortesi di Vaegon gettandogli addosso del vino dorato di Arbor. In questo caso abbiamo una citazione negativa dell'oro di Arbor: il vino è sprecato perché Vaegon non è un bugiardo, dice sempre quello che pensa anche se risulta offensivo e ingiusto.
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Vogliamo una società socialista che corrisponda alle condizioni del nostro paese, che rispetti tutte le libertà sancite dalla Costituzione, che sia fondata su una pluralità di partiti, sul concorso di diverse forze sociali. Una società che rispetti tutte le libertà, meno una: quella di sfruttare il lavoro di altri esseri umani, perché questa libertà tutte le altre distrugge e rende vane

Enrico Berlinguer

 

What is honor compared to a woman's love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms… or the memory of a brother's smile? Wind and words. Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.

George R. R. Martin (A Game of Thrones)

 

The measure of a life is a measure of love and respect,

So hard to earn, so easily burned
In the fullness of time,
A garden to nurture and protect
It's a measure of a life
The treasure of a life is a measure of love and respect,
The way you live, the gifts that you give
In the fullness of time,
It's the only return that you expect

Neil Peart (The Garden)

 

Ernest Hemingway once wrote, ‘The world is a fine place, and worth fighting for.’ I agree with the second part.

Andrew Kevin Walker (Seven)

 

In this game that we’re playing, we can’t win. Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds, that’s all.

George Orwell (Nineteen Eighty-Four)

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